THROUGH THE LENS OF TIME

HAPPY 24th OF JULY........This is Utah's special holiday. The day the Mormon Pioneers' came into the Salt Lake Valley to settle. No other state celebrates like we do with big parade, rodeo etc. Making a 3 day holiday for many in Utah.

I love taking pictures of my family in all their various doings. My children have given me wonderful cameras on birthdays. The small one fits in my purse and comes in handy at all those unexpected "Kodak Moments." The big one you take with you to special functions, kids programs, family reunions etc. I sometimes think my family think of me as their camera-totin gram, hovering like the paparazzi around the pope! I just got my last pictures printed. There were several taken of the grandkids on the 4th of July when I went up the canyon with the Cooks to cook breakfast. Then Saturaday at the fund raising fair at the Pioneer Farm up the canyon I got some cute ones. And at my bridge party Monday I updated the pictures of the girls I have been playing bridge with for over fifty years. Tomorrow is the local 24th of July Parade and I will be there aiming at my cheer-leader granddaughter who will be marching in it! It's fun these little bits of my life being snapped along my path of life. Yes, I get the ducks and hands covering the face sometimes. But I just say, "Suck it up cupcake-----its a camera not a shark attack.....Someday when you all realize that life is sweeping up family and friends in one big swirl of milestones and minutiae and you see my "In the Moment" shots it will be a fun reminder of the good times we have had and make you smile.

The picture above is of my second grandson the night before his graduation. I gave him a picture of he and his father in tuxs when he was all of two......in the back ground is his father's mother and his mother's father visiting with his brother. There are so many stories in just one moments flash. All I can say is "put up with it cause I'm on the prowl and I will get you."